Sash-holder.



. D. P. TRUMP & B. M. GRIMES.

' SASH HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.29, 1905.

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' PATENTED MAR. 13, 1906.-

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SASH HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29, 1905 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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DAvIDP. TRUMP AND BURNARD M. ,GRIMES, OF HOLOOMB, WEST VIRGINIA; SAID TRUMP ASSIGNOR TO SAID GRIMES.

SASH-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented March 13, 1906.

Application filed November, 1905. Serial No. 289,599.

To all whom it may concern/:-

Be it known that we, DAVID P. TRUMP and BURNARD M. GRIMES, citizens of the United States, residing at Holcomb, in the county of Nicholas and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders; and we do declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

Ourinvention relates to improvements in sash-holders; and it consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention is to rovide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and e cient device of this character which may be readil applied to a window-sash and which will e fectively hold the same at any desired elevation and also prevent the samefrom being raised when in its closed osition.

The above and other 0 jects which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood are accomplished by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a detail view of a portion of a window. sash and frame, showing the application of our improved holding and locking device. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. 41s a perspective view of the device removed from the window-sash.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the looking or shown, is of'rectangular form and is preferabl secured upon one of the side bars of the sas 2, so that it coacts with the usual strip upon the side of the frame 1. The body or casing 4, as here shown, is secured to the sash b sc rews passed through openings 5,"

forme in the flanged ends 6 of said casing. In the inner face of the body or casing 4 is formed a longitudinally-extending channel 7, which has its deepest portion at the center of the casing, and its inner or bottom wall is inclined outwardly in opposite directions, as shown at 8 9. This channel 7 opens upon the inner face of the body or casing 4, except at its central portion, which is closed by a cross bar or portion 10, as shown. In the side walls 11, formed by the channel 7, are provided angularlyextending slots 12, which are adapted to receive an operating piece or slide 13, which carries a looking or clutch roller 14. The latter is adapted to travel in the channel 7 and to be moved into and out of the same, and hence into and out of contact with the frame 1 by reason of its engagement with the inclined faces or surfaces 8 9 of said channel. The roller 14 is, as shown, of cylindrical form and is loosely mounted in the slide 13. The latter is in the form of a rectangular yoke,

which slides in the slots or openings 12 and which has upon one of its sides a projecting knob or finger-piece 15, by means of which face ofthe body or casing 4, coacts with a spring 17, which is mounted upon said face of the casing, as clearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. This spring has op ositely-inclined end portions 18 and a centra depressed portion 19, which forms a seat for the collar 16 of the knob 15 and is adapted to hold the slide and the roller 14 in the central ,portionof the channel 7 beneath the cross-bar 10, so

that the window-sash may be readily elevated or lowered when the parts are in this position.

It will be seen that when the knob 15 is moved upwardly the roller 14 will be shifted into engagement with the inclined surface 8,

and-as it rolls upwardly upon the same it will be forced outwardly into engagement with the frame 1 or the usual strip upon the latter,

and the sash will be su ported at any desired v ICC of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanatlon.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Adevice of the character described comprising a casing having a channel therein formed with an inclined surface and with guides, an operating-piece slidable in said guide, an antifriction device in said operating-piece ada ted to coact with the inclined surface in sai casing, and a spring for holding said operating-piece against movement.

2. A casing for attachment to a windowsash and having a longitudinal channel in one witnesses.

DAVID P. TRUMP. BURNARD M. GRIMES. Witnesses:

J. M. MORTON, D. G. LOWDEN. 

